Remember, once upon a time, when the half-bathroom was the only room done in the house and we were so thrilled? Well, then it came time to replace the pipes and we had to tear out the walls and floor in the half-bath, meaning it was no longer done. We were...

Remember how David and I said we were done with the half bathroom downstairs? http://afarmhousereborn.com/2014/01/half-bath-is-done/ Direct quote: “It certainly feels good to get one room totally done.” Well the universe threw that back in our face when our contractor started working on replacing all of the plumbing this past week… so before we go patting...

The half-bath downstairs is done!! It took a while to finish the last few touches, but with some more help, it is the first room we can officially cross off our list! Plus, thanks to my brilliant wife and some very helpful family, we did it for just $318: Sink: $118 from www.wayfair.com Faucet: $53 from www.overstock.com...

To backtrack a bit, here’s what the half-bathroom looked like before we painted the walls and installed the new sink/ re-installed the toilet: After we FINALLY got all the wallpaper off, we decided to paint the walls Benjamin Moore’s Sag Harbour Gray (as we mentioned briefly here). I fell in love with this color when...

With the new floor in and toilet replaced, we can FINALLY install the new sink! Because of how our pedestal sink is constructed, we had to anchor the basin into the wall, which meant we had to drill through tile into the wall / studs. We went out and got some glass and tile drill...

As I mentioned previously, we decided to put down a vinyl floor in our bathroom. I wanted to tell anyone reading this that we know this is not particularly farmhouse-y or really classic, but allow me to explain. Eventually, Lynne and I want to rip out this half-bathroom (again) and tear down the wall into...

As you can probably tell from the title of this post, we ran into some…complications while we were updating the half-bathroom downstairs. All we really wanted to do was install a pedestal sink, but we ran into much more along the way. The way I see it, we had two choices: 1) curse the day...